שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

Some came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.

So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.

It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters.

But one from her family line will rise up in his place, come against the army of the king of the North, and enter his fortress, fighting and prevailing.

Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”